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The Functions and the Ordering of Conditional `If Clauses' in English---A Genre AnalysisPrevious research studies are in agreement that the canonical order for English if conditionals is sentence-initial rather than final. However, earlier findings regarding the distribution of the ordering between initial and final if-conditionals represent only those patterns specific to the limited number of genres examined. This corpus linguistic study is based on a research approach which includes a larger sampling pool and a selection of representative genres as well as detailed statistical and content analyses. It examines the variations in the distributional patterns between initial and final if-clauses within each individual genre and across different genres. The findings of this study suggest that if-conditionals have significantly different distributional pattern across genres. In contrast to the consensus view in current literature that initial if-clause rather than final is the dominant clause order, in 3 of the genres examined in this study (Letters to the Editor, Recipes and Sports News) final if-clauses occur more frequently than initial. In addition, in 3 other genres (News Reportage, Science Fiction and Romance Fiction) these two clause types are equally distributed. This study thus identifies genre as a significant factor influencing sentential if-conditional placement.The study also argues that in addition to the expression of topic and focus discourse relations, the ordering of the conditional and consequence clauses is often used to convey specific pragmatic effects and to perform functions related to genre-specific needs, including social politeness and showing power deixis, hedging or strengthening a proposition. / Department of English

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2003. / Advisor: Joseph Adamson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 243-258). Also available via World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Italian." Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205).

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (Ph. D.)--Zürich. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-123).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2006. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Keith Cushman ; submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-322).

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Orientador: Rosa Maria Manzoni / Banca: Elvira Lopes Nascimento / Banca: Joaquim Dolz / Resumo: Esta dissertação, realizada em nível de mestrado profissional, no Programa Docência para Educação Básica, da Unesp de Bauru/SP, foi concretizada a partir da necessidade de desenvolver o raciocínio argumentativo escrito nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental. Assim, teve como objetivo estudar o ensino-aprendizagem do raciocínio argumentativo em crianças do 5º ano, de uma escola pública do município de Bauru, interior do estado de São Paulo, por meio da elaboração de uma Sequência Didática (SD) fundamentada na didatização do gênero artigo de opinião, e da produção de textos pertencentes a esse gênero. Buscamos colaborar para as reflexões sobre o desenvolvimento das capacidades de linguagem de argumentar dos alunos na aprendizagem do raciocínio argumentativo escrito. Para isso apoiamo-nos na concepção de linguagem bakthiniana (2014), no quadro teórico-metodológico do Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo (ISD), no que se refere à compreensão do agir humano da atividade de linguagem e na proposta de SD para o ensino de línguas por meio dos gêneros textuais (SCHNEUWLY; DOLZ, 2004), com adaptação nas duas primeiras etapas. O percurso metodológico da pesquisa foi delineado nas etapas da pesquisa-ação (THIOLLENT, 2008). Dessa forma, construímos o modelo didático do gênero artigo de opinião, elaboramos parte da SD e a desenvolvemos de modo a apresentar o gênero aos alunos e, posteriormente, para a produção inicial (PI) dos alunos do 5º ano. A análise da PI foi feita segundo o modelo de anál... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This dissertation, carried out at the level of a professional master's degree, in the Basic Education Teaching Program of Unesp of Bauru / SP, was fulfilled based on the need to develop argumentative reasoning written in the initial years of elementary education. The purpose of this research was to study the teaching and learning of argumentative reasoning in fifth year children from a public school in the city of Bauru, in the state of São Paulo, through the elaboration of a Didactic Sequence (SD) based on the opinion genre, and the production of texts belonging to this genre. We seek to contribute to the reflections on the development of language arguing abilities in the students through the learning of argumentative written reasoning. In order to do this we rely on the conception of Bakhtinian language (2014), in the theoretical-methodological framework of Sociodiscursive Interactionism, regarding the understanding of the human action of language activity and in the proposal of Didactic Sequence for language teaching by means of the textual genres (SCHNEUWLY; DOLZ, 2004), with adaptation in the first two stages. The methodological path of the research was delineated in the stages of action research (THIOLLENT, 2008). Thus, we constructed the didactic model of the opinion article genre, we elaborated part of the Didactic Sequence and developed it in order to present the genre to the students and, later, to the initial production of the students of the 5th year. The analysis... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

In terms of structure, style, content and intended audience, Genre Analysis 58, this thesis presents a rhetorical analysis of the plenary address as a genre. Four examples of the opening plenary were analyzed because they represent the opening plenary lecture-keynote speech type, the most common presented at conferences: Mina Shaughnessy and the teaching of writing, Keynote address, Literacy after the revolution and The uneasy partnership between grammar and writing instruction.